Polls open in UK election after campaign marred by attacks

The dollar slipped 0.3 per cent to 109.52 yen, edging back in the direction of Wednesday’s low of 109.115 yen, its lowest level in about seven weeks.

But a final round of opinion polls suggested she would increase the small majority she inherited from David Cameron a year ago, shortly after the surprise referendum decision to take Britain out of the European Union. She would, the reasoning goes, be able resist calls from some in her party who are prepared to see Britain leave without any sort of trade deal that would provide business easy and cheap access to the European Union single market.

However, surveys mostly showed a steady narrowing of the lead of May’s Conservatives for much of the past three weeks following the publication of the parties’ election policy pledges. Some votes have already been cast, through postal voting.

But the security issue was not seen as helpful to her main rival, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has voted against counter-terrorism legislation and expressed reservations in the past about police shoot-to-kill tactics.

“Markets appear to be pricing in a Conservative Party majority victory“, said Jasslyn Yeo, market strategist in Singapore for J.P.Morgan Asset Management.

Ladbrokes favours May to see her present majority rise from 17 to 70 seats while William Hill suggests a more modest increase to between 40 and 50.

The Labour Party leader spoke of the 1959 General Election when Watford was won from the Conservative Party by Raphael Tuck and held a majority of four seats in the Houses of Parliament.

But as all political leaders say, it is the poll on 8 June that counts and people will be able to start casting their votes from 7am until 10pm.

But first, we have answered some crucial questions which you may not know the answers to.

Once the polls have closed at 10pm, results from constituencies all over the country will begin to trickle in gradually.

The exit polls from the United Kingdom media will give a strong indication even before that and should at least let us know how tight the result will be. In fact, an analysis of British likes on Corbyn’s Facebook page shows a almost ideal positive correlation of.966 between the amount of likes and his rising popularity in the polls.

It’s expected that Jeremy Corbyn’s constituency in will declare at about 2.30 am and Theresa May’s at about 4am.

Corbyn was elected party leader in 2015, after Labour’s defeat in the last general election.

The big differences in the poll findings in the run-up to Thursday’s vote have added to skepticism among critics of polling who point to how the industry largely failed to accurately predict the outcome of the 2015 election and last year’s referendum vote to exit the EU.

This is a danger zone for the Prime Minister, because 12 is her majority right now – meaning she would have put her party and the country through a long, hard election for very little or no reward. We need to secure our economy for the future, we need to ensure we are getting more jobs, better paid jobs, more opportunities for young people in this country. The policies the majority actually want, not what the establishment and its media mouthpieces insist they should want.

Brexit, which had been expected to dominate the campaign, has played a surprisingly small role.

Meantime, other polls in the last 24 hours painted a similar picture.

Where is the battle for voters being fought?

But on April 18, when May called the surprise election, her party was over 20 points ahead in the polls, and looked to be heading towards a landslide win.

Voting is under way in the UK General Election amid heightened security at some polling stations in the wake of the recent terror attacks.

The party is heading into the election amid a row over a claim by Ms Sturgeon that Ms Dugdale had offered to drop her opposition to an independence referendum after the Brexit vote.

It means there’s a significant number of votes there to play for and how they’re distributed between Labour and the Conservatives will have a huge bearing on the final result.